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This week 12-year-old Chris Whitehead made headlines when he arrived at his Cambridge school wearing a skirt to protest against ‘discriminatory’ rules which ban boys from wearing shorts.

He says it is unfair that girls can change into skirts during the hot weather, while boys have to swelter in long trousers.

Making a statement: Chris Whitehead, 12, is protesting at not being allowed to wear shorts to school in summer while girls can wear skirts

This, he says, affects their concentration and ability to learn.

The schoolboy is taking advantage of a ‘silly loophole’ in the uniform policy at Impington Village College, near Cambridge, that means boys can wear skirts as the school would be guilty of discrimination if it tried to stop them.

‘In the summer months, girl students are allowed to wear skirts but boys are not allowed to wear shorts,’ Chris explained before his protest.

‘It discriminates against boys. I will march in a skirt with other boys waving banners and making a lot of noise.'

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